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- rootusrootus 9mo agoMildly right wing in America is Democrat. I've not been accusing them of inheriting Hitler's crimes (ironically, Republicans do make that accusation however).
- nailer 9mo agoNobody says they did. That this happened for most of the experience of communism is still relevant.
- breppp 9mo agothey just misinterpreted Marx! if we try again this time it will work
- ceayo 9mo agoThat is authoritarianism. Indeed, you have a valid point, except that communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government. There is no difference between a capitalist authoritarian and a communist authoritarian except that a communist actually has a story (i.e. a fairy-tale) to sell to their people.
- 0x3444ac53 9mo agoCapitalism also has a fairy tail to sell it's people tho?
- dekhn 9mo agoOf course. All successful large-scale political movements have underlying narratives that only loosely correlate with reality.
- drcongo 9mo agoVery much. It's basically: look at all these lovely billionaires, one day you'll be one of them too!
- nailer 9mo agoYes, when countries move from communism to capitalism, poverty, infant mortality, unemployment and every other bad metric goes down.
- breppp 9mo agothe problem with communism in Russia has been that the minute the economy theory inevitably fails, you now have to starve the farmers, and when they don't agree with being starved you need to send them to a gulag
- ratrace 9mo ago> communism in fact only is an economic theory and does not implicate anything on other areas of government This is unbelievably naive.
- mindslight 9mo agoThe problem isn't the "commun" but rather the "ism" - the elevation of a set of beliefs above individual human lives, and then consequently people leveraging that belief system to justify overt harm to other humans (justify to others and to themselves). Given that "communism" has very little relevance in the modern western world, yet a few other "isms" have been widely adopted to the totalitarian levels "communism" had been, the reasonable suspicion is to judge anybody still bashing "communism" as doing so with the motivation of pushing their own "ism".
- emsign 9mo agoSo you think it's ok to kill people who have not killed hundreds of millions because those who did and the former people are both labeled as communists? That's not just insanely inhumane and against basic principles of law but also just illogical.
- ratrace 9mo ago> That's not just insanely inhumane and against basic principles of law but also just illogical. I agree. As a fun science experiment, you should try posting this somewhere else, but replace "communists" with "fascists" and see what kind of replies you get.
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- nailer 9mo agoI’m not sure why this is flagged, it’s fairly easily verifiable.